Showing posts with label Jim Rugg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Rugg. Show all posts
The Comics Kayfabe Guys Dive Into Stroman's X-Factor Debut
Piskor and Rugg talk about Super-Prolific Evangelical Cartoonist Jack Chick
Piskor and Rugg Build with Ralph Bakshi
How Street Angel Saved Christmas
Jim Rugg's Rambo 3.5 is in Stores
Get your copy of Rambo 3.5 at these fine establishments, tough guy!
PREVIEW: "Rambo 3.5" by Jim Rugg!
"Ever wonder how Rambo felt on 9/11? After he helped the Taliban rid Afghanistan of Soviets in Rambo 3, only to feel the sting of betrayal when they teamed up with Osama bin Laden? The answers can be found in Rambo 3.5!"
Your man Jim Rugg (Street Angel
, Afrodisiac
, The Plain Janes
) returns to his roots, dropping his first minicomic in 5 years, and this mess is a mother effing classic!
, Afrodisiac, The Plain Janes) returns to his roots, dropping his first minicomic in 5 years, and this mess is a mother effing classic!Afrodisiac Wants YOU!
the people behind the ghettoManga Award-nominated bundle of 'hells yeah' called Afrodisiac are holding a SWEET art contest on their flickr account!! anyways, let them tell it to you:
Here's what we want - post a picture on our Flickr group of an Afrodisiac art thing...you pick the medium...you pick the everything. All mediums of art; whether it be painting, graphic art, sculpting, drawing, sketching, fake ads, short strips, or gluing an afro on a Ken doll. All categories are welcome, as are entrants from all countries....whatever...go nuts. If you don't have a Flickr account, send us the picture...or the art thing...and we'll post it for you. are holding a SWEET art contest on their flickr account!! anyways, let them tell it to you:We'll have some awesome prizes for the king of the long shoe (art) game.
King Daddy: a piece of original art featuring Afrodisiac vs Dragonfly (see above)
Poppa-stoppa: a deluxe edition of the Afrodisiac and a signed copy of the Street Angel trade paperback
Cigarette Pimp: a signed copy of Afrodisiac...
because they were fresh enough to not REQUIRE me to have a flickr account to enter, I'm all over this joint! Unlike lesser men, I WELCOME the competition, fam! bring it...
holla!
samax.
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More Fun With Ninjas
, Afrodisiac, The Plain Janes) was commissioned by a magazine (that will remain nameless, but it wasn't ghettoManga Quarterly...) to draw this exhaustive ode to ninjas, and the silly bastiches didn't even USE it! well, we are happy to give this piece its proper shine here (and Jim, the invitation to do something for ghettoManga remains open!). for more of my posts about Jim Rugg's work, click here. Or click Here
to buy his books on Amazon.com.Holla!
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How Many Ninjas Can YOU Find?
Ninjas are experts at blending into their environment. Although they generally use that proficiency to help them kill people and stuff, it has many other practical uses. Anyways, comicbook artist, Illustrator and known ninja-lover Jim Rugg (Street Angel, Afrodisiac, The Plain Janes) has created the piece Invisible for a magazine client who unbelievably did not run with it! therefore, GhettoManga gives you the opportunity to click the pic to enlarge and count the Ninjas, and see how many you can find! that's good, clean ninja fun right there! for more of my posts about Jim Rugg's work, click here. Or click here to buy his books on Amazon.com.
, Afrodisiac, The Plain Janes) has created the piece Invisible for a magazine client who unbelievably did not run with it! therefore, GhettoManga gives you the opportunity to click the pic to enlarge and count the Ninjas, and see how many you can find! that's good, clean ninja fun right there! for more of my posts about Jim Rugg's work, click here. Or click here to buy his books on Amazon.com.Holla!
-samaxghettoManga.com
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((you KNOW you want it))
Afrodisiac is in Previews right now! i'll do everything in my power to get a review copy so i can bless you with well-informed endorsements of the books greatness that must be looked upon as inevitable. if my slobbering isn't enough, here's the sales pitch from the publisher:The crew behind Street Angel
hits the ghetto with the Afrodisiac - in SuperColor! Theres cats, gats, spats, and feathered hatsaction as big as a Georgia ham and wool so fine it'll blow your mind! Lock up your daughters, come hell or high water, cause here comes the king of the concrete jungle! details: 96 Color pages
6 " x 9 "
HC $14.95
ISBN 978-1-935233-06-0
Shipping December 2009
Diamond Order Code: OCT09 0658
okay, so that's all shorthand for 'YOU NEED this in your life' cousin! you know how much i love Street Angel, and that love most definitely rubs off on soul brotha #1 Afrodisiac!
Afrodisiac Iron On!!!
my clients are keeping me busy, so i haven't had time to blog much about comics...and i'm not gonna do it now either... HOWEVER, i just HAD to blog about this SWEET iron-on by indie phenom Jim Rugg of Afrodisiac, the blaxploitation super-hero, ladies man and all around bad mofo from Rugg's equally badass comic: Street Angel...
like i said:
SWEET!!! go harrass Jim (like I did!) so he will put these on the market, fam!
holla!
samax.
Graphic Novel Review: Street Angel by Jim Rugg...
The Naked,Pink, Truth! my first exposure to street angel was Street Angel #5. it had a picture of the young star holding two uzis and a vinette of blaxploitation has-been, Afrodisiac, as well as a really well-drawn cat head, amidst other details. all on a pink background that made it impossible to ignore (see cover below). to that end, i picked the book up and skimmed it several times. on the second or third store visit, i could no longer resist! i bought the damn thing (another reason why smart comic shops do NOT put books in boxes just because they didn't come out this week...), half-expecting to read it once and file it... to my surprise, this was a smart, funny parody/tribute to just about everything i love in independant comics!
unfortunately for me, this was, as i said, #5, so i had missed the previous material. nevertheless, i was excited at finding a new favorite comic. in telling my friends, i found they already knew about Street Angel (but had not told me... *HATE!*), and in fact, one of my peeps GAVE me issues 1-4 to make up for keeping me in the dark (*NICE!*).
Street Angel is "the invincible,skateboarding, kung-fuing, pre-teen vigilantress..." the only hope for "the poor, the weak and the nice," battling against "hate, greed and nepotism" in wilkesborough, the worst ghetto in a city that makes gotham look like maybury!
there's ninjas, mad-scientists, pirates, an incan sun god sporting a phat africa medallion,plain-clothes superheroics, not to mention kids that smoke cigarettes and skip school! Rugg writes the book with a deadpan voice that makes it hard to tell when he's joking or making fun of something and when he is dead serious... and that makes it even more fun!
this is a comic clearly made by someone who does whatever he wants: there is an issue where street angel- a homeless kid, did i mention she's homeless?- spends the entire issue searching for food! it's this kind of creative determinism you see less and less of in mainstream entertainment, and rugg revels in it.
the format of the trade (front cover seen here) is charming. it's printed in a smaller size than usual (though not quite as small as the digest manga format), and is very convenient to pack around (i took it when i rode the bus from dallas to kansas city... an adventure in and of itself-but i digress),plus, it has the all-pink wrap-around cover, similar to the individual comics (there's nothing like the looks a 6ft 240-pound black man gets reading a pink graphic novel in a bus station...), a keen marketing decision (as i said earlier, that pink cover draws the eye as well as any mid-nineties foil-stamped, tripple nipple gatefold gimmick joint!), and all-around eye-pleaser. the trade collects all five issues of the series (please make more, mister rugg!!!), plus some additional select material from Rugg's 'zine days! but my favorite addition is the bio pages detailing street angel and other characters, including some that aren't even in the book, like the fearsome Wereshark (?!). because you need to know, the categories includes "smarts", "basketball skills" and "skate skills"... the ONLY drawback of the trade is the exclusion of the "ninja dojo" feature from the original books, where ninjas teach you things you need to know: how to bake cookies, how to play the banjo, catch arrows, stuff like that!
however, they more than makes up for that with a diverse sampling of pin-ups by indie all-stars like mahfood, scott morse, and andy macdonald. so my advice: COP IT. it's published by Slave Labor Graphics, so order it online, or hassle your local comic shop or bookstore to order it. you'll be glad you did!
for more info, go to the Street Angel Website...
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